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1. jgm commented on Oct 25, 2012

   

   jgm

   on Oct 25, 2012

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   +++ Andrew Pennebaker [Oct 25 12 09:59 ]:

   Describe what markdown is for, and how it's more of an idea that has
   been copied into numerous individual spin-offs, rather than one single
   standard.

   I think of Markdown as a more intuitive version of MediaWiki syntax.
   Either way, the goal as I see it is to produce rich text documents in a
   syntax that's nearly as powerful as HTML but much easier to use.

   That is one goal. The other goal, which is very important (and which
   distinguishes markdown from e.g. textile) is readability as plain text:

   The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make
   it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted
   document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
   like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While
   Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML
   filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax
   is the format of plain text email.
   http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
2. hamstar

   added 2 commits that reference this issue on Nov 26, 2012

   markdown#2: made an about page

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   markdown#2: about page is not much good without a link to it

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